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There have been reports of firing in the India-Pakistan border area. The Associated Press, quoting three Indian army officers, said that on Thursday night, Pakistani soldiers opened fire with small arms at an Indian check post in Kashmir. Al Jazeera reported that there was an exchange of fire between the security forces of India and Pakistan on the Line of Control (LoC) that separates the two countries.
After the terrorist attack in Baisran Valley, known as 'Mini Switzerland' near Pahalgam on Tuesday, the news of firing has become public amid deteriorating India-Pakistan relations.
27 people including Sudeep Neupane from Butwal were killed in this incident. According to the Indian media, 17 people were injured in the incident.
The Associated Press has mentioned that the Indian Army also retaliated in the shooting incident. But Pakistan has not released any response about this incident. Shafqat Ali Khan, spokesperson of Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a press conference, "I don't want to make any comment until there is an official confirmation from the army."
Hindustan Times quoted Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif in a television interview and stated that the steps taken by India have created a threat of war between the two neighboring countries .
India on Wednesday cut ties with its neighbor with a series of diplomatic measures, accusing Islamabad of supporting "cross-border terrorism". But Pakistan has said that it has no role in the Pahalgam attack and that the attack is India's domestic problem.
The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow organization of the banned Pakistani insurgent group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), claimed responsibility for the attack. Although the insurgency has been going on for three and a half decades in the Muslim-majority region of Jammu and Kashmir, there has been a slight decrease in the number of attacks in recent years. Even during the three-and-a-half-decade conflict in the Jammu and Kashmir region, such large-scale attacks on tourists were rare.
